The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, a tax-exempt, 501 C-6 nonprofit, is comprised of critics and entertainment journalists who write on television and film for noteworthy media outlets accessible in the U.S.

Formed in 2009, GALECA and its annual Dorian Awards toast the finest in movies, TV shows and performances of all kinds, from mainstream to LGBTQ-centric.

Most members identify as somehow queer, be it lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender, though GALECA has straight “ally” journalists in its ranks as well (these members tend to work for LGBTQ-targeted outlets).


OUR MISSION

To remind the world of our community’s influence on the screen arts and society at large as taste-makers and trendsetters.

To champion the art of witty, wise and historically knowledgeable film and TV criticism and entertainment journalism.

To provide fellowship, camaraderie and career support in a time of change and uncertainty in the media.


MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA AND RULES

GALECA members must currently and regularly write or report about television and/or film for at least one legitimate media outlet, be it print, TV, radio or online.

Film of the Year

Birdman – Fox Searchlight

Boyhood – Sundance Selects/IFC

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight

The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company

Pride – CBS Films



Film Performance of the Year – Actor

Steve Carell, Foxcatcher – Sony Pictures Classics

Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game – The Weinstein Company

Jake Gyllenhaal, Nightcrawler – Open Road

Michael Keaton, Birdman – Fox Searchlight

Eddie Redmayne, The Theory of Everything – Universal



Film Performance of the Year – Actress

Essie Davis, The Babadook – Sundance Selects/IFC

Anne Dorval, Mommy – Lionsgate

Julianne Moore, Still Alice – Sony Pictures Classics

Rosamund Pike, Gone Girl – 20th Century Fox

Reese Witherspoon, Wild – Fox Searchlight



Film Director of the Year

Wes Anderson, The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight

Ava DuVernay, Selma – Paramount

David Fincher, Gone Girl – 20th Century Fox

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Birdman – Fox Searchight

Richard Linklater, Boyhood – Sundance Selects/IFC



LGBTQ Film of the Year

The Imitation Game - The Weinstein Company

Love is Strange – Sony Pictures Classics

Pride – CBS Films

Stranger by the Lake – Strand Releasing

The Way He Looks – Strand Releasing



Foreign Language Film of the Year

Force Majeure – Magnolia Pictures

Ida – Music Box Films

Mommy – Lionsgate

Stranger by the Lake – Strand Releasing

Two Days, One Night – Sundance Selects/IFC


Unsung Film of the Year

Obvious Child - A24

Love is Strange – Sony Pictures Classics

Pride – CBS Films

The Skeleton Twins – Roadside Attractions

Snowpiercer – Radius/TWC



Documentary of the Year

(theatrical release, TV airing or DVD release)

The Case Against 8 – HBO

CitizenFour – Radius/TWC

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me – Sundance Selects

Life Itself – Magnolia Pictures

Regarding Susan Sontag – HBO



Visually Striking Film of the Year

(honoring a production of stunning beauty, from art direction to cinematography)

Birdman – Fox Searchlight

The Grand Budapest Hotel – Fox Searchlight

Interstellar – Paramount

Snowpiercer – Radius/TWC

Under the Skin – A24



Campy Flick of the Year

Annie

Gone Girl

Into the Woods

Maleficent

Tammy